Giovanni Gabrieli. Transmission and Reception of a Venetian Musical Tradition

This collection of essays on the life, times and works of a composer who ranks among the most outstanding musical personalities of his day brings together the various strands of the most recent research in an attempt to interpret Giovanni Gabrieli's output and activities in their Venetian context and, at the same time, cast light on their broader historiographical significance: on the one hand Gabrieli as point of synthesis of a complex Venetian musical tradition, on the other his interaction with and impact on contemporary musical life, his influence on later generations of composers both at home and abroad, the rediscovery of his achievements by nineteenth- and twentieth-century historians and performers, the revisitations of his music by twentieth-century composers.